Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-10

These lands are upon the market for prr<
chase by men who will settle on them
and are also in the market subject to
lease for grazing or other purposes
watered tracts and all. Ownership OF
the land can only be obtained by actual
settlement and purchase, at IS per acre,
IN quantities to each individual of not
more than section-640 acres
OF the land having water and 50 per scre
for dry land, of which settler may buy
four sections. One-fouEth, one-half or
three-fourths of section merely may be
taken. The object of the terms in put
ting this land on the market for sale is
expressly to win settlement, so declared {;
and the requirements binding on the pur-
chaser are set forth in al oath to which
ne is compelled to subscribe, that ne de-
sires the land for 8 homestead: that he
will move on the land in ninety DAYS and
reside on and improve it for three years {;
that he is not acquiring it for any one
but himself, that ne is tWenty-one years
Of age; that the interest will be paid
yearly, and the principal within forty
years, in yearly payments.
Immense tracts are owned by railroads.
aud other large and small bodies are
owned by corporations or individuals
who bought them from the state or were
granted them before the passage of laws
like the present. Many of these lands
may be bought on easy terms either in
large or small qusntities, By men Who
merely want to make judicious invest
ment or by home seekers These will
afford some splendid chances in the near
future fer speculation and profit,
/ - r..
full sources which are going short
! ~ to bring the Panhandle it's tremendous
real estate boom. That the advent of so
many railroads and the influx Of q vast
number of immigrants and ne develop
ment OF the country and the upbuiIding
of towns VIII enhance the value of lsnGeG
properties largely, that II will much more
than double them in the next two years,
does not need even the proof which q
reference to other countries history
would furnish.
[ Will the plains be seasonabIe? How
were Kansas and Nebrasks few wears
ago? How was Texas clea, to her east
ern counties few years ago? Do not
cultivation and vegetation aud the growth
Of trees bring more seasonab!e seasons?
/ Readers, do not make the common mis-
take of supposlHg the Panhandle to be q
great desert. Do not imagine it TO be
barren, for ii dry times these SAM
plains grow grasses tha5 nod like broad
meadows and supply the herds that uUm->
| Der thousands anG tens Of thousands. Ft
Elliott signal service statistics show that
the rainfall has been gradually increasing
for recent years, and what does this mean
if not that the seasons Will be here when
the farmers are. That grass grows indi-
Gates that cereals, wheat, O8ts, rye, 0aT-
lev, millet, ETC., will grow in the same
place; ami the success which has crowned
all efforts in this ireCtion-grC wing
oats, millet and alfalfa, and even corr
tell something Of the possibilities Tame
fruits will grow because all kinds of wild
fruits, plums, grapes end berries liz many
varieties grow. Wells may have TO be
sunk to considerable depths in
places, but not deeper than many farmers
dig in old countries. IneXhaustibIe sup
plies of water have been found on these
plains at from eighty TO q hundred and
twenty feet. An idea has been shown 10
prevail abroad that the stockmen OF the
Panhandle oppose settlement and will
make it unpleasant for immigrants It is
neither in their power nor their inclina-
ton to Go so. Nobody is better aware
than they that they must eventually give
way for multitude OF smaller catrIemen
and actual settlers, and when the time
comes they will not oppose the tide. The
men who have large landed possessions
and such the cattIemen have at present
will vie with the state in disposing !
of them in small tracts aud giving lib |
eral terms TO purchasers. Stockmen ct
present are of the opinion that this COM
ing immigration will, by creating de- f.
mand for their lands, furnish them q more /
profitable business than stockraising, /
and make their lands too valuable for |
mere grazing. That they are right in this |
opinion there is no room for doubt.
A pest which troubles other sections |
of the west and southwest, the prairie /
dog, is not found in any numbers, is
scarcely found at all, or the plains any
where. This pe>ky varmint keeps nearer
to the rivers and rocky plgteaus.
For the man who seeks his home in the
Panhandle with even limited means, if
he has g few COWS, good tesms, enough
supplies so that first failure would not
starve MIN out, That max In 9 few years
will have al independent income, q lOrdly
estate, Increasing fOCks and herds, Wav-
ing fields, blooming orchards, handy
uidI hCtSJ Nv SCdIttty Vi uGlSuUCIE, ADG
all the convenieuces and cOntentment OF
q home arranged by himself and 10 mis-
tastes. For the man whose condition
is such as that there, is no I
reason for moments hestta-
ton. Stock farming stock raising
in connection with crops-is the only
method of agriculture; and the man whO
has The good judgment to agree with tAis
idea and adopt it will find no fairer field
for operation than this same Panhandle
of Texas. Here he will find that land is
yet plenty and cheap; he will fad that the
earth responds to every effort, that the
fairest and broadcast domain on Gods
footstOol bids him take choice; that the
very atmosphere braces and mulsiplies
his energies; that health never forsakes:
that springs run clear and pure, and that
grass grows and flowers loom perennial
Is this the kind of home yau seek? If
not, no harm is done; if so, danger at
tends delay.
STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS.